When you’ve gone your whole life feeling like you’re different, it wouldn’t seem that having your dear aunt Lucy spring the news that you’re a hereditary hedgewitch would be a good way to start fitting in. However, for Katie Lightfoot, the main character of my Magical Bakery Mysteries, that’s exactly how she began to learn where, and… Read More

Bailey Cates

I grew up in the West and earned degrees in philosophy and
English from Colorado State University before moving to the
Pacific Northwest for twenty years (where the Home Crafting
Mysteries are set). I’ve worked at a variety of jobs,
including driver’s license examiner, bookseller, and
newspaper ad manager.

I traveled the world as a localization program manager for
Microsoft, but am now back in Colorado where I currently
write the Magical Bakery Mysteries and the Enchanted Garden
Mysteries. Shotgun Moon is my only standalone, western
mystery. I live with my guy and two felines: Cheesecat the
Orange and Minerva the asthmatic wonder kitty.

Like many of my cozy characters, I believe magic is all
around us if we only look for it. Having apprenticed with a
master herbalist for a year, I’m prone to concocting
teas and tinctures for family and friends from the stash of
herbs stored in the corner cabinet in my office. I own a
working spinning wheel and am on a first name basis with
several alpacas and two sheep with questionable dispositions.

For two years, I managed my own soap making company,
including product design, manufacturing and marketing.
Aromatherapy played a large part in that business, and I
have a collection of essential oils next to my herb stash.
Unlike the main character in the Enchanted Garden Mysteries,
I don’t distill my own oils…yet.

When I’m not writing, I love to cook, peruse
cookbooks, garden, read, bike and hike the gorgeous terrain
outside my door, and have been known to play the occasional
round of really bad golf.

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